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Local Artist Published

December 28th, 2022

Local Artist Published

Local Artist Published: Works With Legendary Hiker For A Second Collaboration
Local artist Lena Auxier teamed up with the legendary hiker, Sunny Eberhart, who hit the news earlier this year for being the oldest person to walk the entirety of the Appalachian Trail, to provide drawings for yet another book of his.
Two years ago, Eberhart contacted Auxier, who lives in Prestonsburg and is from Magoffin County, after seeing some of her work online and wanting her to illustrate a second edition of a book of his, and Eberhart must have loved her work, since she got another email from him in May of this year.

“He was working on a revised version of a poetry book of his and he had added more to it and asked me if I wanted to go on another journey with him,” Auxier told the Independent.
The 83-year-old author, legendary hiker and retired optometrist, who writes under the name M.J. Nimblewill Nomad Eberhart, was working on the second edition of “DITTIES – Whispers,...

Artist Lena Auxier Illustrates Book

December 21st, 2020

Artist Lena Auxier Illustrates Book

Lena Marie Auxier, an artist and Magoffin County native, believes there was some divine intervention when she received an email in March an 82-year-old man in Alabama who had seen her artwork online.

“I get a lot of these kinds of emails, but this one struck me as different,” Auxier told the Independent. “He had included a lot more information than the usual spam emails and, when I looked him up, he’s a legend in the hiking world.”

Sunny Eberhart, who writes under the name M.J. Nimblewill Nomad Eberhart, was working on releasing a second edition of his book, “Where Less the Path is Worn: First Trek o’er the Appalachians of North America,” first released in 2004, detailing his first 347-journey of hiking the Appalachian Trail, and wanted illustrations to go along with certain parts of his book. He had seen Auxier’s drawings online and said her style was exactly what he was looking for.

“From everything he told me and what I’ve read about...